Cornrow Styles

Cornrow hairstyles are the traditional style of braiding the hair near the scalp. Although usually done in straight lines of cornrow can be seen in the complex geometry and curved models. Often found adorned with beads or shells to cornrow hair style is preferred for easy maintenance. It can be left during a week, with careful cleaning and oiling the hair and scalp.

Cornrows are a common way of shaping hair in Africa south of Sahara Sub centuries and continues in the United States and other countries of the enslaved Africans. Cornrow hair style can be used to display social status as well. Things like religion, age, kinship, status, ethnicity and can be transported. Over 1960 styles has become widely popular among African Americans as a way to emphasize their natural hair texture.

Cornrow hairstyles can range from strictly linear, beginning in parallel rows on the front of the scalp and ending at the neck to complex geometric patterns, swirls and curves. Although it may be tempting to consider a stylized geometric models into a modern, ancient artefacts found in Africa show geometric patterns in cornrow their hair. Hairstyle survive in the era of slavery when it was common to shave the heads of the enslaved people as slaves who worked in the houses are expected to maintain a clean and tidy appearance at all times. These slaves modeled their house cornrow braid more traditional design, and keep the tradition alive.

After the civil war, many adults facing their hair but once a cornrow tradition was alive, held by braiding corn rows hair in childhood. Repopularized 1960'and at the end of the beginning of 1970, and again with the hip hop movement in 1980 many of cornrow styles and designs we see today are the conglomeration of styles found in ancient Africa, some Native American touches, and the Board of modern flair.

One reason for the popularity of cornrows is the relative ease of maintenance. In braids are often found decorated with beads or shells, and can be left in a week or even months at a time with careful protection. Careful washing, along with regular oiling of the scalp hair and create a lasting, quick and easy hairstyle that can complement almost any person of life.